[OpenLayers-Users] Microsoft MapPoint Web Service?

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 11:53:33AM -0500, Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
> Jeff Dege wrote:
> > Can OpenLayers display layers with data from Microsoft's MapPoint Web
> > Service?
> > 
> > If it were WMS, I'd know the answer.  But it's not clear from a quick
> > glance at MS's website whether their map web service is WMS or not.
> 
> MapPoint is a SOAP service. You would probably need to create a proxy on 
> your server the translates the OL requests into MapPoint SOAP calls to 
> fetch images, that then get passed back to OL. Yeah, that sounds really 
> messy.

Sounds like a great case for a new TileCache Layer.

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
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